My question is due to the increasing amount of teenagers that are clinically obese should teenagers between the age ranges of 13-18 be forced to participate in sports?
In my discussion part I am going to talk about my point of view on whether or not teenagers should or should not be forced to participate in sports. After I have talked about my point of view I will mention the arguments and counter arguments which will show peoples point of view on whether teenagers should be forced to participate in sport or not. But firstly I am going to state a quote from a newspaper and a quote from another source stating why teenagers should be forced to participate in sports. A quote from The Telegraph states that “forcing children to exercise more does …show more content…
People who are overweight often suffer from self-esteem problems and this is because they don’t feel good about the way they look and perform. So this is why staying healthy is an ad-vantage because you have good self-esteem and mental health. Having good self-esteem in sport is also an advantage because you feel more confident about yourself and you perform better. There are many possible consequences of not participating in sport and of being obese and these are; type 2 diabetes, asthma, obstruc-tive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular risk factors, psychosocial risks/mental health disorders and musculoskeletal problems. Each one of these illnesses I took out of my research review. (Health risks of childhood obesity, n.d.). The reason this is happening is because teenagers are often playing computer games in their spare time, eating a lot of rubbish and leaving out the important meals such as your breakfast, dinner and tea; with no exercise being completed throughout the day. A quote to back my research up is “Researchers found that teenage boys consumed an extra 80 calories after playing computer games for an hour compared to those who did not”. (Borland, 2011). That 80 calories could make a difference because if you play on a computer game for 3 hours every day you are putting on 240 calories more than the people who are not playing com-puter games. This is also a big problem because once the people who put that 240 calories on they are unlike-ly to take it off because they do not participate in any kind of physical
In my discussion part I am going to talk about my point of view on whether or not teenagers should or should not be forced to participate in sports. After I have talked about my point of view I will mention the arguments and counter arguments which will show peoples point of view on whether teenagers should be forced to participate in sport or not. But firstly I am going to state a quote from a newspaper and a quote from another source stating why teenagers should be forced to participate in sports. A quote from The Telegraph states that “forcing children to exercise more does …show more content…
People who are overweight often suffer from self-esteem problems and this is because they don’t feel good about the way they look and perform. So this is why staying healthy is an ad-vantage because you have good self-esteem and mental health. Having good self-esteem in sport is also an advantage because you feel more confident about yourself and you perform better. There are many possible consequences of not participating in sport and of being obese and these are; type 2 diabetes, asthma, obstruc-tive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular risk factors, psychosocial risks/mental health disorders and musculoskeletal problems. Each one of these illnesses I took out of my research review. (Health risks of childhood obesity, n.d.). The reason this is happening is because teenagers are often playing computer games in their spare time, eating a lot of rubbish and leaving out the important meals such as your breakfast, dinner and tea; with no exercise being completed throughout the day. A quote to back my research up is “Researchers found that teenage boys consumed an extra 80 calories after playing computer games for an hour compared to those who did not”. (Borland, 2011). That 80 calories could make a difference because if you play on a computer game for 3 hours every day you are putting on 240 calories more than the people who are not playing com-puter games. This is also a big problem because once the people who put that 240 calories on they are unlike-ly to take it off because they do not participate in any kind of physical